The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-02-28
apart from tho world on tho isolated
plantations Of the alluvial region, yet be.

plantationB ol the a!luyial region, yet bl
tween what he spends for his weekly RI
tions and what he buys extra at the plsr
ta!ion store he has nothing loft. Tie n
tions arc furnished 10 tho negro BY III
planter at an average profit OF 35 per cent
and store merchandise at at least twjc
that profit. And still tho average plante
makes no money, take one year with an
other. Between overllows, worms, an
the exac!ions OF their commission ma,
chants at New Orleans tho majority O
them come out behind, It Is compute,
that they do business at an average OK
psnse Of 25 per cent for money. There
fore ifIany mischance, involving the losg d
q crop befalls them, they arc set back per
haps for years. 4 b 's'1','l
'l' MANAGEMENT OF PLANTATIONS, n
There is q great deal OF worry and 70
sponsibility in running one Of these large
plantations. To deal with hundre,
blacks, keep them at work, provide TO,
them and the animals they employ, iighI
overtlowB and the cotton worm, ia no plnv
CARDS work. And yet there Ia said TO bs
fascination In 1t. Tho planter can look
over largo area and see production goinl
on in large way. at this time Of yea,
he sees thirty or forty plow teams turning
up the rich alluvial soil. Already oats
have been sown, potatoes havo been
planted, and the corn ground prepared,
The grass and the clover arc up. tho fruit
trees are In bloom, and the hedges aud
woods are full OF tho music Of birds Il d
exhi!arating to ride over plantation on
a genial morning, such as they have here
Mt this time OF year, and SEQ preparations
on 9 large scale for supplying to tho world
with our greatest export staple. 81
Generally speaking, each plantation haa
a negro church and q negro echool. The
came house is used for both, and Ii ia In.
decd q very primitive building, fortunate
II 1t has q Ioal glass window in it, The
whites as a rule have no churches or
church privileges OH THAR plantations.
They live too far apart. Out Of cav 1000
people in this parish Of $50 square miles
there are about 1900 whites, the full half
OF whom reside at the parish seat, or, as
you would say, county town. The rost
are scattered over their plantations and
they mover go to church except when
away from homo. The darkeys do not at.
tend church in overwhelming numbers,
Sunday ia to them q holiday more than
nything else. Formerly many OF them
ct the plantation storea.
where they bought whiskey, esrIines'
cheese and crackers and gambled on tho
green the 1.-Two long day. The now SIM.
day lew OF Louisiana has shut up tho
stores on that day and put a stop to these
bacchaIalian proceedings. ~
CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS.
The negro church services OF a plsnts-
lion are always interesting to Northern
people. They gro SO quaint and queer,
such mixture ot fetch end religion, L.
would take letter by itself to do justice
to this feature OF negro life. A yjeitor
must indeed look at them through the
eyes OF sympathy and good wishes not to
bo prejudiced by the ludicrous element.
There are two or three things the darkey
belieVea In, religious experience. e
baptism, an ejaculatory PRAYER.
and whoop. p.de-doodum-do stylu Of sing.
ing. He believes in the dovii and all his
works; not q spiritual devil but q real
devil that goes round after night. He
believes that he will be heard on high bv
means Of faith and lung power and there
lore he prays as II the dsity was "asleep
Or gone on 3 journey" after the manner
Of Baal. >1N
AS to plantation schools, they arc sway
down at the bottom, Of the educational
ladder.
The schoolyear is only about sixty dsys,
and you can judge what a white school
would be under such circumstances. The
,eschers arc colored, many of them
'nly lndiaerently qualified Tor teach
ng, and yet, with ell the drawbacks OF
'cant time, Ecant qualification and scant
Recommendations, the colored children, as
believe, are making hopeful progress
ind are ovincing a real capacity to acquire
knowledge. l believe that the average
whites Of the land would not do material.
y better under such weight of hin.
lrancep, =, = Ut
/ The colored race in the South is work.
ng out its own salvation with mighty little
ND from the white race. II ia eubjected
% q grinding process that in the school OF
is sharpening its faculties and
observation-disclosures. II is learning the
.rt OF bargein.making and trading, aud sll
he while ia sloughing OF come OF the old
kin OF elothfulness, improvidence and
childish dependence. 1t has yet, how.
,ver, a long and weary road TO travel, and
he present generation that come up out
II Egypt aud out Of the houae OF bondage
gill not enter into the promised lsna,
have had pieassut soj0urn he.e OF
wo weeks at the Southern homestead of
Jol. A!eck CampbelI, who has bsen a
planter in Louisiana for full generation,
md who has spent almost every winter
lers during that lime, although he still
:a!ls hlmeelt a citizan OF VEST Virginia.
10 found his eatimsb!e wife in this coun.
ry long before the war, which 10 the ex.
olanation OF tho curious przzls to many
II his West Virginia friends rs to how ho
.ame to be identified with thiu part Of the
south. The Colonel is the came genial
ind popular man here that he is at home,
md no man is bsttor known or better
liked by every white man and also every
1arkoy along the shore. Sl7E al
have also fallen in with another old
limo West Virginian in this country in
,he person Of Mr.. Stephen Rumble, OF
Satchez, a native Of Marshall county, who
;ame there Cd young man before tho
var, and after going through the war on
,ho Southern side, has had successful
career aH busincas man. He owns tho
house occupied by General Grant during
MS military etay ct Nstchez after the fail
u Vicksburg, and | was gratiied in this
Southern land to sleep under tho roof that
once covered the grand man who had
saved this people from their mad attempt
at secession and assured them and ali
other parts Of our great country future
o be proud Of. a5 5lgE awe. 35
BIG AMY AS :ABUSINESs. ~"
founS AInn Who Mnkcsn Living by Robblnr
and DESERVING Ono Wifo After Another,
y P1rTsnuRaH, Pa, Feb. o6.-Seyeral
months ago jewelry agent named Ernest
Goodman, married young Jewess living